No. 1 Story

ACCC clears Optus to scrap HFC network and use NBN instead

The ACCC has cleared, provisionally, the proposed deal between Optus and NBN Co under which Optus is to be paid around $800m to shut down its HFC network and transfer customers onto the NBN. read more

Related Articles

Adoption of cloud computing has reached a tipping point  - but don’t expect legacy...
In yet another blow to the Facebook IPO this week, following the withdrawal of...
Recruitment technology and social media have played a significant role in growing business in...
D-Link's latest wireless router is claimed to be three times faster than Wireless N...
The Raspberry Pi computer board is the world’s most inexpensive yet incredibly useful, useable,...

More From

Larger Kindle expected this week

Your IT - Mobility

In April, News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch praised the Kindle and alluded to an investment by News Corp in a larger, full-color device.

There's no indication of who would manufacture such a device: all the other prominent e-readers are black and white, like the Kindle.

Plastic Logic , for example, is planning to have a pilot version of their reader out in the second half of this year. It will supposedly have an 8.5-x-11-inch screen but be much thinner than the Kindle -- but it'll still be black and white.

The Hearst Corporation is also rumored to be working on a newspaper-oriented e-reader.

And the elephant in the room, of course, is Apple, with its anticipated bigger-than-an-iPod touchscreen mobile device.

Such a device would have a color display suitable for video, but its screen is not expected to be as large as that of a dedicated e-reader.